[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: qunQeD

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Klingon word: qunQeD
Part of speech: noun
Definition: history science
Source: The Little Prince [TLP]
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I.e. historiography

CULTURAL NOTES:
  The Second Dynasty ended when General K'trelan assassinated Emperor Reclaw.  For the next 10 years the empire was ruled by a council elected by the people.  Modern-day Klingon historians refer to this as the Dark Time.  [DS9 "You Are Cordially Invited..."]

TREK NOTES:
  WORF:    But we do know that the Iconians were conquerors. 
  PICARD:  But that knowledge was passed down by the descendants of those who attacked
                   this world.  The victors invariably write the history to their own advantage. There
                   is an unfortunate tendency in many cultures to fear what they do not understand.
                   [TNG "Contagion"]

qun qon charghwI'pu''e' 
History is written by the victors ["conquerors"].  (TKW}

This maxim is wrongly attributed to Winston Churchill according to his biographer Martin Gilbert, who believes it's classical.  But on one occasion Churchill did quip, "History will be unkind to Neville Chamberlain. I know because I shall write it."   Which he did in his best-selling "The Second World War" (6-volumes, published 1948-1953).

SEE ALSO:
qun  		history (n)
quntej  		historian (n) TLP

lut 		story (n)
lurDech 	tradition
quH 		heritage (n)
'ISyar 		legacy (n)
pa'logh 		the past (as a whole) (n)

qempa' 	ancestor (general n., singular only)
no' 		ancestors (general n., plural only)
  - no' Hol  		ancient language (n) (i.e. Ancient Klingon)
  - no'QeD  		genealogy (n) 
'emrIgh  	ancestor (direct) (n)
  - "an individual ancestor in one's own bloodline" (qep'a' 2019)
nortlham 	descendant (n)
nubwI' 		predecessor (n)
  - qeylIS bov 	    	the era of Kahless (PB xxi)
  - qeylIS bov nubwI' 	before the era of Kahless (PB xiv)

--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons